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Amazon has built a wearable that listens to your conversations and can surface product recommendations based on what you said. The Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse are two new ambient AI devices designed to record, summarize, and act on your spoken conversations.

A bug in the Google Home app has left device lists messy for some users, with no obvious way to fix it for the time being.

On-device AI is becoming increasingly capable, with companies exploring ways to run more AI workloads directly on phones and other consumer devices. Perplexity, for instance, has launched on-device AI assistants, while Google has released models such as Gemma 4 12B specifically designed for on-device use. Now, Google appears to be pushing that idea even further.

Google today announced its new EmbeddingGemma 2 model that can be used to “organize, search, and connect information directly on consumer hardware.” To show off its potential, Google created an AI Edge Foresight Mac app for “intelligent notetaking.”

Vector graphics were mostly abandoned in gaming, but small pockets of enthusiasts are still keeping the Vectrex, the only vector-based home console ever released, alive. And what does one do to draw attention to a niche platform? Why, put Doom on it, of course.

Azerbaijan, September 21. Under President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, digitalization has become one of the main areas of Kazakhstan’s state policy. In 2026, declared the Year of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, the country is simultaneously developing the use of AI, computing capacity, specialist training, and digital infrastructure

RatHat is the new Android trojan you should know about. Zimperium researchers just published a breakdown of a strain they’ve traced to China-based operators, and what makes it different isn’t the credential theft, which is standard fare by now. It’s what it does to get there.

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